Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Installer trust chain validation
- Patent Title (中): 安装员信任链验证
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Application No.: US11496852Application Date: 2006-07-31
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Publication No.: US09098706B1Publication Date: 2015-08-04
- Inventor: Mark Kennedy
- Applicant: Mark Kennedy
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: Symantec Corporation
- Current Assignee: Symantec Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
- Main IPC: G06F9/445
- IPC: G06F9/445 ; G06F12/14 ; G06F12/16 ; G06F11/00 ; G06F21/57 ; G06F21/56 ; H04L9/32

Abstract:
A determination is made as to whether a creator of a created executable file is a trusted installer, e.g., a digitally signed installer. Upon a determination that the creator is a trusted installer, the created executable file is defined as a trusted file. By bestowing the trust of a trusted installer to the executable files that the installer creates, suspicious behavior by the created executable files and associated processes, which otherwise would be blocked, is allowed. In this manner, false positives, e.g., blocking of legitimate behavior by the created executable file and associated process(es), are avoided.
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